The MegaRAID® SAS 9280-8e, with eight external SATA+SAS ports, is ideal for configuring these external enclosures with your choice of high-performance SAS hard drives, high-capacity SATA hard drives or energy-efficient solid state drives (SSDs). With data transfer rates of up to 6Gb/s per port, the MegaRAID SAS 9280-8e bring users new features and improved performance, while continuing to support all the features of the previous 3Gb/s SATA+SAS generation. This feature line controller employs the latest in RAID-on-Chip technology, complies with the PCI Express® 2.0 specification and provides additional data security using LSI™ SafeStore™ encryption services.
Unique Features
- Eight external SATA+SAS ports.
- Two mini-SAS SFF-8088 x4 connectors.
- 6Gb/s throughput per port.
- LSISAS2108 RAID-on-Chip (ROC).
- Low-profile MD2 form factor (6.6” X 2.536”).
- x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface.
- 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz).
- Optional battery backup unit (direct attach).
- Connect up to 240 SATA and/or SAS devices.
- RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 6.
- RAID spans 10, 50 and 60.
- Auto-resume on rebuild.
- Auto-resume on reconstruction.
- Online Capacity Expansion (OCE).
- Online RAID Level Migration (RLM).
- SafeStore Encryption Services.
- SSD support with SSD Guard™.
- Global and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare support.
- Single controller multipathing (failover).
- I/O load balancing.
- Comprehensive RAID management suite.
| Model |
HA-LSI-92808E (9280-8e) |
| Controller Interface |
SAS / SATA II |
| Connectors |
2 x Mini-SAS |
| RAID Level |
0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 |
| OS Supports |
Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 Server,
MAC OS 10.3.x or later, and Linux |